On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:07:49PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > It's sgran who's been thinking about how to do this, but afaik he's seen > close to zero interest from developers for it, so it's not happened > yet. I don't think we need anything from the DPL as such, but if people > are actually interested in something like this happening, saying so > would be a good start. o/ I am currently working on http://ci.debian.net (WIP), to run autopkgtest (aka DEP-8) test suites. While developing on my own machine is completely fine, to actually try it out I need external resources even during development because of the demand in processing power: current with only ~200 packages having DEP-8 tests the longest run already took 14h to complete (in a single VM running test suites sequentially). It's currently running the test suites with schroot, but to make sure every test suite runs on a clean environment I will need to switch to using fresh VM's for each test suite. Also parallelizing the runs will be required to have timely results. The proof of concept is running on a Amazon EC2 VM from Debian's credits. I am a little ambivalent on this: on one hand, having this kind of resource available in a DSA-managed environment would have been useful. On the other hand, first prototyping it somewhere where we have free credits helps in knowing how much we will actually need from non-ephemeral, DSA-managed resources when the service gets to a production-ready state, so we might be saving DSA's most precious resource which is people's time. -- Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>
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